Sustainability and National Security

change on whole societies over the next several de- cades. Shifting the Culture In developing a strategy that emphasizes resil- ...

The military must redefine what is being taught to its next generation of leaders. Most of the junior Offi- cers who entered Ser ...

recognized this in its recommendations to the new U.S. Presidential Administration: Just as DOD has served as an engine of progr ...

of FMF are to maintain regional stability and to im- prove response to humanitarian crises (U.S. Depart- ment of State 2011). Wo ...

limiting the powers of the U.S. federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohib- its most members of ...

governmental organizations represent the vanguard of work on climate change. The International Research Institute for Climate an ...

ing requirements of the COCOMs: the decision mak- ers who need the information most. Similar invaluable partnerships exist in th ...

DOD bridge the cultural divide of working with orga- nizations comprised of academics, scientists, and en- gineers. Civilians wi ...

menting an aggressive two-year approach to move beyond climate change adaptation problem identifi- cation to implementation of e ...

“The people say this was an act of God. But what comes now, they say, is the act of man. If we don’t deliver, they will not forg ...

Dasgupta, Susmita and others. 2007. “The Impact of Sea Level Rise on Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis.” World Bank P ...

Mullen, Admiral Mike. 2010. Speech presented at the En- ergy Security Forum. Washington, D.C. Mydans, Seth. 2009. “Vietnam Finds ...

psSC/pages/humanitarianAssistance.php (accessed April 20, 2011). Zebiak, Dr. Stephen. 2010. Interview by author. Palisades, NY. ...

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The Consequential Challenges of Climate Change Corry Juedeman 7 ...

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“The danger from climate change is real, urgent, and severe,” states President Barack Obama in his 2010 National Security Strate ...

unfettered access to strategic resources such as oil. As an example, Nigeria is consistently one of the top five oil exporters t ...

that indicated climate change is an “unequivocal reali- ty,” and gave several examples of evidence to support that thesis (IPCC ...

Figure 1. CO 2 Level Increase over Time. Source: (NASA 2008) One such effect of this warming is a rise in the glob- al sea level ...